PART 1 - The Harrison murders: How did Peel Regional Police investigators miss the obvious?

Graphic by Joel Wittnebel

On April 16, 2009, Bill Harrison didn’t know he was about to die. 

He was a healthy 64-year-old man with no history of heart problems. 

After his body was found inside the bathroom of his family home at 3635 Pitch Pine Crescent in Mississauga, it was believed the cause of death was a sudden interruption of his regular heart beat, an acute arrhythmia. There were signs of foul play, including strange markings on his neck and a fractured sternum. 

Things didn’t add up.

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There was ample evidence of wrongdoing in the systematic execution of three family members in four years inside their Mississauga house. In the first of a three-part series, signs of incompetence within Peel police are revealed, one of many underlying tragedies behind the Harrison family murders. 

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on August 16, 2020